I keep reading in different forum posts that there is a way to force an older version on android on the mytouch 4g so it can be rooted. I don't know how to install an older version. I went to one site that gave instructions, and I couldn't even get past the first step without receiving an error.

Please help. I broke my other phone so was forced to get a new one, and with this new one I can't get cyanogenmod on it because it's Android 2.3.4. The only way to root the phone is to put older software on it, supposedly (at least that's what I understood from reading several sites). I miss cyanogenmod. :(

I keep reading in different forum posts that there is a way to force an older version on android on the mytouch 4g so it can be rooted. I don't know how to install an older version. I went to one site that gave instructions, and I couldn't even get past the first step without receiving an error.

Please help. I broke my other phone so was forced to get a new one, and with this new one I can't get cyanogenmod on it because it's Android 2.3.4. The only way to root the phone is to put older software on it, supposedly (at least that's what I understood from reading several sites). I miss cyanogenmod. :(

Yeah that's the only way to downgrade. That worked for my buddy last night. Hopefully you know how to use ADB.

Here someone said, “This is incorrect. While it isn't possible to root stock 2.3.4 yet, you can still root your device using the passimg method, which is basically forcing an older version of Android onto the phone. A version which does allow rooting. Then you can keep your bootloader locked and still have custom firmware.”

I don’t know how to do this though.

There is a link on this site, stating to use NEXUS ONE method to unlock my phone.

I tried this, and the command prompt says “waiting for phone” and nothing happens. I read on another site that I have to get the correct USB drivers for my phone, but I don’t quite understand what they are referring to.

I have tried this method (see link just below this mini-paragraph), and I can’t even get passed the first step. I get an error message like “Access denied/don’t have permissions.”

I also found a video online of some guy unlocking his phone with Visionary. I tried that, my phone’s screen went black, and then Visionary failed to work once I restarted my phone to get rid of the black screen. I even uninstalled and reinstalled it, and the program still wouldn’t work right. I wiped my phone, started over with Visionary, and it gave me a black screen again. Nothing happened. I waited for 30 minutes, and I couldn’t get out of the black screen. I reset my phone, and continued down the same vicious cycle of total lameness.

Supposedly all of these methods are for the 86 and 88 bootloaders (although a lot of my sources do not specify)... I have 89 on my phone. I tried a google search for a method to root or unlock a phone with 89 bootloader, and there is nothing. Let me know what you think.

Note that it's a mixed guide that also includes the G2/Desire Z, so make sure you follow the parts meant for the MT4G. It uses Fre3vo to temp-root. Gfree doesn't work on GB ROMs so you have to fool the phone into allowing a downgrade.

Once the downgrade is complete you can go back to the instructions from the CyanogenMod Wiki. Once you have S-OFF you can flash whatever you want.

i got stuck at the push the img to sdcard so i just put it on the root and skip the push to sdcard and went to adb reboot bootloader
mine looked like this in cmd bold is what i typed red you can skip and put the image file on your sd card
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7600]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

I went through the same thing, I just kept punching in commands because it would appear to gain temp root using visionary, but never update the recovery. After repeating the process and commands several times in a row to kind of force it and make sure, it works. I know these phones have a hard time communicating via usb cable so maybe thats it... but just repeat your commands and make sure that you aren't getting errors and that everything is actually gaining root not just appearing to gain root.

As far as visionary goes, I never got it to do perm root, I just installed recovery and bootloader using the wiki setup guide.

I too have HBOOT-0.89.0005. Did you (or anyone else) find a solution, or does it even matter? Would be great if I could afford to brick the phone, but as it's my only phone, no can do.

pd

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Originally Posted by juju-bees

Supposedly all of these methods are for the 86 and 88 bootloaders (although a lot of my sources do not specify)... I have 89 on my phone. I tried a google search for a method to root or unlock a phone with 89 bootloader, and there is nothing. Let me know what you think.

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